Verbal counting and spatial strategies in numerical tasks: Evidence from indigenous Australia

Philosophical Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 443-457

  Butterworth, Brian ^a,c   Reeve, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core number knowledge; Counting words; Indigenous Australian languages; Linguistic relativism; Whorf

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049085361     PISSN: 09515089     EISSN: 1465394X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515080802284597     Document Type: Article

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